[DRB]

http://www.cockeyed.com/citizen/creditcard/application.shtml



http://redtape.msnbc.com/2006/03/what_if_a_despe.html#posts

 

[JRB]

I saw that yesterday. I eat mine.

OK - not really - you could probably screw me pretty bad. I wonder how frequently the CC companies settle suits with people for f'n them with unsolicited mail, using personal info. I'll bet the number is huge.

 

[DRB]

I've been in the habit of tearing the application up and sending it back to them in their envelope. Figure might as well ding them for the postage. I was going to start putting sand and rubber cement to gum up their mail openers..... but then decided having some government agency after me might not be so cool.

 

[Total Heckler]

Damn, you would think they would have a policy about not accepting things like that in the mail.

 

[Echo]

Everyone should go to www.optoutprescreen.com anyway and opt-out, if only for the purpose of reducing waste.

 

[hooples3]

I cut mine into 27&1/2 pieces. I then proceed to put one piece in one bag of garbage. example: one in the recyling bag, one in the paper good, one in the reg trash. if i dont use 27 bags of garbage i bring some of the pieces to work and throw them out there. I doubt anyone is going to find all the pieces at the garbage dump. the remaining 1/2 piece i keep for the memories

 

[MudGrrl]

I'm all for stuffing the little bitty pieces in a cadaver.

 

[binary visions]

I'm all for stuffing the little bitty pieces in a cadaver.

I keep one on hand at all times for just such a purpose.

 

[PonySoldier]

Into the wood stove they go...

 

[hooples3]

I'm all for stuffing the little bitty pieces in a cadaver.

do you get a cadaver every month or just keep one until the end of the year?

 

[jimmydean]

I use mine to start my yard waste burn pile in the back yard. They work rather well and I know they are better off there. I have a paper bag full of all the stuff that has personal info on. I used to shred it, but my shreder died last year.

 

[Barbaton]

hmm. maybe i should stop just throwing them away without even opening them...

 

[MMike]

hmm. maybe i should stop just throwing them away without even opening them...

So where do you live?

 

[JRB]

So where do you live?

Like you're smart enough to fill out a credit card app.

 

[Barbaton]

So where do you live?

Point taken. I hate having to be paranoid about everything nowadays. :redhot:

 

[fiddy_ryder]

I've been in the habit of tearing the application up and sending it back to them in their envelope. Figure might as well ding them for the postage. I was going to start putting sand and rubber cement to gum up their mail openers..... but then decided having some government agency after me might not be so cool.

my boy does something similar.. buuuuttt since they pay postage by weight.. he proceeds to STUFF as much newspaper into the envelopes and humanly possible and drops em in the blue boxes

 

[manimal]

i take mine to work on a monthly basis. we have a huge shred bin that we put all of the sensitive info in. saves me the trouble of wasting my time shredding everything and it is guaranteed to be illegible after they're done with it

 

[MMike]

Like you're smart enough to fill out a credit card app.

gee. good one.

 

[reflux]

my boy does something similar.. buuuuttt since they pay postage by weight.. he proceeds to STUFF as much newspaper into the envelopes and humanly possible and drops em in the blue boxes

freakin brilliant!!

 

[Changleen]

Into the wood stove they go...

 

[oly]

I never thought of sending back their crap..... mine just gets torn up and tossed in the trash....